BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is from former Barrie resident Ken Robertson in response to a story titled Residents can have their say on Allandale highrise proposal later this month' published on Nov. 13.
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For the proposed towers on Essa Road, Innisfil Street and Jacob’s Terrace, I think all residents of Barrie know this council is hellbent on turning downtown Barrie into a condo jungle.
Although councillors may listen to residents’ concerns, the decision is made and will be the same as the massive tower development on the waterfront — between Lakeshore Drive and Bradford Street — where there was plenty of opposition.
The developers own this council and their goal is to turn downtown Barrie into a mini-Toronto where all you can see is condos.
Ken Robertson
Wasaga Beach
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